Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.

Works

A Haunting in Venice

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Release Date:2023-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2409

The Menu

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Release Date:2022-11-17

Department:Writing

Job:Original Concept

Vote Count:5137

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

A collage crime movie from the first novel of Agatha Christie.

Release Date:2022-06-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Death on the Nile

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

Release Date:2022-02-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3764

Promise of death

Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately, a tragedy strikes the Hondo Family while on a hike to a local shrine. Mrs. Hondo, who was supposed to be taking a rest on the way, is found dead. Kawahara Daisaku, the chief of the local police station, asks Suguro to help with the investigation of Mrs. Hondo’s death.

Release Date:2021-03-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

4.50 from Paddington

Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.

Release Date:2018-03-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:5

Murder on the Orient Express

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Release Date:2017-11-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:10019

Crooked House

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

Release Date:2017-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:916

Chorabali

Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.

Release Date:2016-01-22

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:5

Murder on the Orient Express

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".

Release Date:2015-01-11

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:8

Fatal Invitation

An ordinary summer day change to darkness when a young woman's body is found dead in her garden. 6 people are invited to a beautiful house that holds a mystery of the dead woman. All 6 people has a history with the dead woman, some of them share a dirty past with her. What could they have done? Are any of them responsible for her death?

Release Date:2011-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Crime Is Our Business

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

Release Date:2008-10-02

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:91

The Great Alibi

Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...

Release Date:2008-04-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:46

Towards Zero

Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.

Release Date:2007-10-31

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:37

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

Release Date:2005-04-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:74

Sparkling Cyanide

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.

Release Date:2003-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:11

Identity

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Release Date:2003-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Original Concept

Vote Count:3918

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.

Release Date:2001-04-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:48

Innocent Lies

In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

Release Date:1995-06-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:18

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.

Release Date:1992-12-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:27

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

Release Date:1991-12-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:33

Mousetrap

The criminal history is inscribed in the everyday life of prosperous, apparently quite prosperous people. Suddenly, the truth is revealed, hidden for the time being under the guise of respectability. The past is returning, creating mysterious murders ...

Release Date:1990-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Peril at End House

A classic mystery story based on the famous novel by Agatha Christie.

Release Date:1990-07-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:8

Ten Little Indians

Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Release Date:1989-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:41

The Man in the Brown Suit

An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.

Release Date:1989-01-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:10

Appointment with Death

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

Release Date:1988-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:133

Ten Little Indians

A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Release Date:1987-12-28

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:71

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Release Date:1986-12-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:47

Murder in Three Acts

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Release Date:1986-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:58

Dead Man's Folly

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

Release Date:1986-01-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:42

Thirteen at Dinner

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.

Release Date:1985-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:65

Murder with Mirrors

When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.

Release Date:1985-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:19

Ordeal by Innocence

Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.

Release Date:1984-06-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:22

Secret of the Blackbirds

Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.

Release Date:1983-11-21

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:17

Sparkling Cyanide

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.

Release Date:1983-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

A Caribbean Mystery

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.

Release Date:1983-10-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:17

The Secret Adversary

After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.

Release Date:1983-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:8

Spider's Web

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

Release Date:1982-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:5

Witness for the Prosecution

Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.

Release Date:1982-12-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:16

Evil Under the Sun

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

Release Date:1982-03-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:445

Murder Is Easy

American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.

Release Date:1982-01-02

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:16

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.

Release Date:1981-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:21

The Mirror Crack'd

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Release Date:1980-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:207

Towards Zero

Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

Release Date:1980-05-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities. And the only clues the two have to go on are the puzzling last words of a dying man. Featuring characters created by Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a classic crime thriller sure to please murder-mystery fans.

Release Date:1980-03-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:15

Death on the Nile

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.

Release Date:1978-09-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:810

Murder on the Orient Express

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Release Date:1974-11-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1431

And Then There Were None

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Release Date:1974-09-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:99

Black Coffee

Release Date:1973-08-02

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Endless Night

Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.

Release Date:1972-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:56

Mord im Pfarrhaus

Release Date:1970-11-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Dix petits nègres

Release Date:1970-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Les Dix Petits Nègres

Release Date:1970-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

La Toile d'araignée

Release Date:1969-01-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

The Alphabet Murders

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

Release Date:1965-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:40

Ten Little Indians

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.

Release Date:1965-07-31

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:121

Murder Ahoy

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

Release Date:1964-09-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:133

Murder Most Foul

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.

Release Date:1964-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:152

Murder at the Gallop

Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.

Release Date:1963-06-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:163

Murder She Said

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

Release Date:1961-09-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:204

The Spider's Web

Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.

Release Date:1960-11-01

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:12

Chupi Chupi Aashey

A woman is murdered and a hand bill of a resort run by a young couple is found. Is the murderer headed for it? Who is next victim? All the boarders, including owners are under false name. Why? A policeman arrives, will he be able to stop?

Release Date:1960-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Ten Little Indians

Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.

Release Date:1959-01-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6

Witness for the Prosecution

An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.

Release Date:1957-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1444

Spider's Web

Release Date:1955-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Ten Little Indians

Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.

Release Date:1949-08-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

And Then There Were None

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

Release Date:1945-10-31

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:375

Lord Edgware Dies

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?

Release Date:1934-07-31

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:4

Lackered Box

The story gets under way at a weekend house party where a scientist is murdered and his secret papers stolen. Putting his "little grey cells" in action, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot methodically pieces together the clues, revealing the culprit to be -- you guessed it -- the Least Likely Suspect.

Release Date:1932-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Black Coffee

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Release Date:1931-08-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Victims Hotel

a TV movie based on an Agatha Christie's novel

Department:Writing

Job:Original Film Writer

Towards Zero

After a scandalous divorce, a tennis star, his ex-wife and a volatile mix of guests converge at a coastal estate. When murder strikes, a troubled detective must unravel the truth.

Release Date:2025-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

Deset malých černoušků

Release Date:2024-10-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Murder Is Easy

England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise — and when she’s later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they can strike again.

Release Date:2023-12-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:23

Charlie Chopra And The Mystery Of Solang Valley

A rich man dead, a town full of suspects, narratives filled with lies and an innocent convict. How will Charlie navigate through the mystery when every face hides a secret?

Release Date:2023-06-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:5

Checkmate

It tells the story of Situ Yan, a young lawyer from Peking who was dismissed from his post for sticking to his principles. He comes to Harbin to become a detective where he meets the forthright and wealthy friend Luo Shao Chuan in ensuing cases. He also meets Zhou Mo Wan, a woman who dares to love and hate. Together, they dig up a huge conspiracy.

Release Date:2022-08-10

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.

Release Date:2022-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Original Film Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:76

Agatha Christie's Hjerson

Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?

Release Date:2021-08-16

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:18

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple

British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.

Release Date:2020-10-10

Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vote Count:18

The Pale Horse

After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.

Release Date:2020-02-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:104

A Murder Is Announced

Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.

Release Date:2019-04-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Le Crime en héritage : Agatha Christie crève l'écran

Release Date:2019-01-01

Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)

The ABC Murders

1933. Hercule Poirot, older and greyer, receives letters threatening murder. The sender signs themselves only as “A.B.C.” When he takes the letters to the police looking for help, Hercule finds all his old friends have moved on. But soon there is a murder and the once-great detective must take matters into his own hands.

Release Date:2018-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:143

Ms Ma, Nemesis

Ms. Ma is sent to jail after being accused of killing her daughter. She escapes in order to find the real murderer and starts solving other cases.

Release Date:2018-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:32

Vote Count:6

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.

Release Date:2018-09-23

Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vote Count:6

Kuroido Goroshi

March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been suspected for killing her own husband so Dr. Shiba’s sister Kana is guessing that she has committed suicide due to being tormented by killing her husband. Everyone who was in Mr. Kuroido’s house is the suspect, including all the members of Kuroido family, butler, secretary, maids, etc. The Detective Suguro (Hercule Poirot) will investigate the case. Dr. Shiba will be assisting him. As things are searched by them, a shocking fact has been brought to light…

Release Date:2018-04-14

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Ordeal by Innocence

The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.

Release Date:2018-04-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:110

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.

Release Date:2018-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ?

Release Date:2017-09-06

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:7

And Then There Were None

10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.

Release Date:2017-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

The Witness for the Prosecution

The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.

Release Date:2016-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:80

Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime

Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.

Release Date:2016-02-04

Character:Self (archive footage)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:25

And Then There Were None

Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.

Release Date:2015-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:603

Partners in Crime

Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents and cold war conspiracy. Tuppence is a woman who sees adventure round every corner, throwing herself head first into every mystery with passion and fervour, determined to get to the truth no matter what it takes, much to the dismay of her more cautious husband Tommy.

Release Date:2015-07-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:34

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

David Suchet, TV's Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. Suchet is embarking on a journey to learn more about the woman who created Poirot and whose books remain outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. Suchet's journey takes him to the places Christie lived, the landscapes that inspired her and to meetings with people who knew the woman behind the fame and those inspired by her extraordinary legacy. He explores the close links between Christie's extraordinary life and her work and discovers what it was about the woman from a small seaside town that allowed her to become the best-selling murder mystery writer in history.

Release Date:2013-03-17

Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vote Count:4

Partners in Crime

Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is forced onto the adventure. Their investigation will put them on the trail of a mysterious scientist who holds the secret to eternal youth...

Release Date:2012-08-22

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:60

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

Release Date:2009-01-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:47

Petits Meurtres en famille

Release Date:2006-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:10

Agatha Christie's Marple

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Release Date:2004-12-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:23

Vote Count:122

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.

Release Date:2004-09-22

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:8

Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple

Young Mabel West is the daughter of mystery writer Raymond West, who wants her to lead a normal life. Rebelling against this, Mabel wants to be a great detective, and sets out for London to become assistant to none other than Hercule Poirot, the great Belgian detective who resides there. She finally wins the reluctant approval of her father, and embarks on an exciting life of mystery and suspense - his only demand being that she occasionally spend some time with her great-aunt, Jane Marple, in the small village of St. Mary Mead.

Release Date:2004-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Episode Count:39

Vote Count:9

Subho Mahurat

An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.

Release Date:2003-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

The Mousetrap

An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.

Release Date:1997-06-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Murder In The Memory

A Syrian series based on the novel "The Sleeping Murder" by Agatha Christie. The events revolve around a murder that occurred in the past and was not discovered until 20 years after it was committed.

Release Date:1992-06-17

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

The Trouble With Agatha Christie

An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and members of her family.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Character:Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vote Count:1

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhood that influenced her writing.

Release Date:1990-09-20

Character:Self (archive footage)

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

Release Date:1989-12-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:27

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Release Date:1989-01-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:70

Vote Count:486

الدفاع يتهم

Release Date:1988-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

Release Date:1987-02-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:31

Miss Marple: Nemesis

Mr. Jason Rafiel asks Miss Marple to solve a crime but, he does gives her any details. In fact, he can't be sure that a crime was committed at all.

Release Date:1987-02-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:35

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

There's a murder at the elegant hotel where Miss Marple is staying and international adventurer Bess Sedgwick is the prime suspect.

Release Date:1987-01-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:32

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

Release Date:1987-01-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:31

Pelėkautai

Release Date:1986-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance

Simone is growing increasingly worried about her powers but is promised by her overbearing fiance that she can stop after one more dramatic seance.

Release Date:1986-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.

Release Date:1985-03-07

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:31

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.

Release Date:1985-02-28

Department:Writing

Job:Original Film Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:25

Ten Little Maidens

Ginger Lynn and Harry Reems play a happily married couple who find their wedded bliss interrupted by an offer for an all-expense paid trip to the mysterious Bacchanale Island. A young couple receives two tickets in the mail for a free stay at an island resort. After they get there they find out that someone is killing off the guests one by one.

Release Date:1985-02-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:5

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.

Release Date:1985-02-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:25

Dangerous Women

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot and Noriko with a gun stands near him. Tanase calls one of the guest's name and dies.

Release Date:1985-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Release Date:1984-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:36

Miss Marple

Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.

Release Date:1984-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:6

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.

Release Date:1983-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:14

The Agatha Christie Hour

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

Release Date:1982-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:14

The Soul's beauty

Based on Agatha Christie's Novel "The Tenth Victim" Madiha is a middle-class employee. When her relative dies and inherits a large amount of money, she discovers that the entire fortune may be lost

Release Date:1982-08-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

اللمسة الأخيرة

Release Date:1980-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:13

Monday's Theater

Greek television series

Release Date:1972-01-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Nadu Iravil

A murder-mystery, in which the friend of a wealthy, elderly couple tries to bring about a reconciliation between them on the one hand, and their their estranged relatives on the other.

Release Date:1970-04-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Five Dolls for an August Moon

A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.

Release Date:1970-03-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:124

Zehn kleine Negerlein

Release Date:1969-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:3

Love from a Stranger

Release Date:1967-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Les Quatre Vérités

Release Date:1966-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Gumnaam

Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they begin to die...

Release Date:1965-02-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:17

I Am Justice

The events of the film take place in a dramatic setting on New Year's Eve, where a group of the elite of society celebrate in the palace of a wealthy man (Munir Ezzat), and there the course of events changes, as the life of each of the invitees is at stake, after an unknown person reveals the truth about each of them through a recording that is broadcast after they enter the palace, and decides to achieve justice with his own hands, so he takes revenge on each of them, and reveals their sins to each other.

Release Date:1961-01-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Ein Fremder kam ins Haus

Release Date:1957-06-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Das Spinnennetz

Release Date:1956-08-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

ITV Play of the Week

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.

Release Date:1955-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

The Gallery of the Great Detectives

This is a 7-part German crime series by Peter A. Horn. In self-contained and unconnected episodes, the great detectives of crime literature solve various cases. Sherlock Holmes (Ernst Fritz Fürbringer) and Dr. Watson (Harald Mannl) start things off, followed by Auguste Dupin, David Wilson, Father Brown, Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff and Hercule Poirot. Every episode of this early crime series in the early days of television was still broadcast live. It could hardly have been more irregular: it was broadcast in loose succession on different days at different start times in prime time, and the length of the broadcast varied between 25 and 50 minutes.

Release Date:1954-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

Release Date:1953-02-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Goodyear Television Playhouse

The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television". Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks. In 1955, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. Producer Fred Coe nurtured and encouraged a group of young, mostly unknown writers that included Robert Alan Aurthur, George Baxt, Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Howard Richardson, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal. Notable productions included Chayefsky's Marty starring Rod Steiger, Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party, Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, Richardson's Ark of Safety and Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30pm.

Release Date:1951-10-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Nash Airflyte Theatre

Live anthology series featuring a wide format of stories (western, musical comedy, dramatic, et cetera).

Release Date:1950-09-21

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:1

Witness for the Prosecution

Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.

Release Date:1949-06-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:5

Love from a Stranger

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.

Release Date:1947-11-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:8

Love from a Stranger

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.

Release Date:1937-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:11

Alibi

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

Release Date:1931-04-28

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Adventures Inc.

Based on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an espionage ring.

Release Date:1929-02-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

The Passing of Mr. Quinn

Release Date:1928-07-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Seven Dials Mystery

England. 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths - the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent - to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1